Microsoft Windows exec says iPad cannibalizing netbooks

Microsoft’s Windows product management GM Gavriella Schuster surprised the industry with remarks that the iPad was taking away netbook sales. When asked about the trend, the division leader said netbooks were “definitely getting cannibalized” by tablets, of which the iPad is nearly the only model. Both netbooks and tablets were “and” devices that were supplements to a main computer, she stressed to Seattle’s Post-Intelligencer, but this made netbooks vulnerable…